How many things can you buy for five taels of silver?

According to the originator of the world romance novel, the classical masterpiece "Jin * Mei" records - the original text is as follows: "On the second day of the next day, Ximen Qing weighed out four taels of silver and asked his family to come to Xing'er to buy a pig, a sheep, five or six jars of Jinhua wine, incense candles, paper, chickens and ducks. ”

It's only four taels of silver, and I can buy so many things.

Ximen Qing bought the mansion of her ex-husband's family in the golden bottle, but it was only two or three hundred taels, which shows that the purchasing power of one tael of silver is not weak.

"Jin * Mei" is written by the Ming Dynasty about the Song Dynasty.

In fact, it is to write about the Ming Dynasty, but if you don't use the background of the Song Dynasty, the author's head will have to move.

I don't know what Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang thinks, he stipulated that the county order of the Ming Dynasty was only two taels of silver (grain and silk equivalent) per month. However, you must know that the salary of the Ming Dynasty officials was not provided by the state, but by the county order.

How does it work?

Don't worry, as the so-called "three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", although the prefect is not as big as the prefect's officials, but there is no shortage of money. The peasants brought in tax grain, kicked it over, and all that fell was hard-earned money. There are a lot of things to do in the name of exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, not to mention the Zhang County Order, even Lin Zhutou is not less than three taels of silver every month. Who earns wages when you are an official?

One or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for 1,000 yuan, sometimes floating between 700 and 1,400, also known as a hanging money or consistent money, carried on the body, jingling, cumbersome and troublesome. When shopping, untie the leashes. Two pennies can buy a pie stuffed with leeks and eggs, and five pennies can buy a large string of hawthorn paste.

Then, five taels of silver is five thousand wen.

Zhang Dazui and Li Dazui cooperated, and a total of four main dishes were served, accompanied by two main dishes and two cold dishes.

A plate of roast piglets, a roast whole sheep, two plates of salted duck, five plates of roast chicken, and a few jars of Huadiao wine were moved to the five ghosts, and they were allowed to drink it, not counted.

At this time, another person walked in, tall, plain and shabby, and at first glance he was not a rich man.

Gray cloth robe, gray cloth cloak, gray cloth boots, gray iron mask, only a pair of eyes can be seen. What a pair of bright eyes, blazing and sharp.

A sword in his hand, rusty, the blade is rolled, this sword has no edge, about two feet, and the hilt is a piece of broken poplar.

Tang Xiaomi looked at it, where is it still a sword, and it is too dull for her to use it to chop wood.

"Do you want to stay in the hotel or stay in the hotel?" Tang Xiaoxiao greeted with a smile.

"Two side dishes, one and a half pounds of cake. The man's voice was not loud, but his words were clear, and when he heard it, he knew that his internal skills were extraordinary, but he was not publicized.

"Okay!"

Tang Xiaomi never dislikes the poor, but all guests are greeted with a smile.

Seeing this, the red-haired ghost boss praised: "Little girl, could it be that the beggar gang disciple can't succeed?" At this time, the dark rudder of the beggar gang Jiuquan has become clear, and it has become the rudder of the bright face.

"Yes. ”

"Okay! I like the beggar gang ethos the most, there is no high or low in my eyes, good, very good!" The ghost's name is Zhou to ward off the evil spirit, and after thinking about it, he said: "In the early years, Zhou fought the enemy together with Situ Daxia and Zhang Wuxia, and killed the flying owl Lin Changqi in Datong Mansion, and after ten years, I don't know how the two of them have been doing recently?"

"Oh, you mean Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother, they're all fine. After saying that, Tang Xiaomi regretted it and exposed it, didn't it?

"Oh?" The five ghosts turned green and looked at each other, and Zhou Qievil asked in a deep voice: "Little girl, don't be joking, just now, what did you call them?"

"Uh..." Tang Mi blinked his eyes and waved his hand and said, "Oh, don't ask, it's annoying!"

"Hahaha!" The five ghosts saw that Tang Xiaomi didn't have much heart, but was cute, so they laughed heartily and stopped asking.

At this time, two people walked in at the door, the style of clothes was exactly the same, but the color was one black and one white, on a sunny day, wearing a set of rain clothes, bamboo hats, and cotton grass clothes. The brim of the hat is pressed very low, and the faces of the two people cannot be seen clearly, which is quite mysterious.

"Two guest officers, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

The man in black slowly raised his head, and a miserable white face leaked from behind the brim of his hat, clinging to the brim, and a pair of eyes were extraordinary, like a pair of snake eyes.

"We only eat living animals. The man in black said coldly.

"Oh... , how to eat, do you eat it raw?" Tang Xiaomi thought of Feng Sanniang, and still felt afraid.

Hearing this, the man in black and the man in white raised their heads at the same time, looked at Tang Xiaomi, and the man in black squinted his eyes and said, "Could it be that the girl recognizes us?"

Tang Xiaomi's lips moved, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, the man in white waved his hand and said: "It seems that the name of our black and white snake has resounded throughout the country, but I didn't expect that in this distant land west of the river, it can still be recognized, hey!" sighed and said sadly: "I have long said that people are afraid of being famous, and it is too painful to be famous." ”

After speaking, he cried sadly twice, but Tang Xiaomi felt that the corners of his mouth were smiling.

"Hey, what do you want to eat? If you want to eat live animals, now I have more than ninety chicks in my house, all of them alive. ”

Of the hundred chicks raised by Tang Xiaomi, one was crushed to death by her, and the other ninety-nine, after being personally tested by the little poison fairy, there was not a single good chicken. Fifty taels of silver were squandered, and the three girls wept for a long time.

Later, the little poison fairy went to see the one that was crushed to death by Tang Xiaomi, and exclaimed: "This is like a wooden chicken!"

"No wonder it was crushed to death, it was really a little stupid! The other chicks ran away, what did it pretend to be half of the garlic? it deserved to be crushed to death!" Yulan scolded indignantly, claiming that he would never cooperate with the two of them again, and actually made a loss-making deal.

At present, there are more than 90 chickens, and if they are not sold quickly, it is also a big trouble, and it will take a lot of money to feed them every day.

Otherwise, the five ghosts just now would not have come up five times at once.

"Are your chickens fat?"

"It's all a one-month-old chick. ”

"In that case, bring us four. The black snake stretched out four fingers, and after speaking, his face was proud.

It gives the impression that he can eat living things alive, as if it were a kind of honor.

Not long after, Tang Mi came in with four chickens.

Seeing the two of them eating chickens, Tang Xiaomi's back was numb, and she found that these two people were far worse than Feng Sanniang.

Feng Sanniang eats the ducklings alive, which is one bite at a time. When you chew it, it rattles, and it makes you feel energized when you listen to it. Although I think it's terrifying, at least people's mouths are big, and it's not a problem to stuff two fists into them. As soon as the duck entered its mouth, it chewed twice and swallowed it in one bite, and with a rumbling sound, there was not even a single hair left, but it was also clean and neat.

Looking at the two in front of him, they were completely forced in, chewing silently, his neck stretched long when he swallowed, and his face was red.

I watched them sweat for them.

Tang Xiaomi's teeth were straight, for fear that the two of them would suddenly choke to death, and they would face a lawsuit for their lives.

The man with the sword came up with two plates of side dishes, and Tang Xiaomi brought them to him, but the man didn't take off his mask, but just took out 75 yuan from his arms and put it on the table. looked at his expression, as if to say: "You don't care how I eat, the money is for you anyway." ”

"Wow!" Suddenly Rhubarb yelled twice, grinning at the door.

Tang Xiaomi was startled, turned his head and saw that there were five heads standing at the door, all of them with hateful faces.

It's so ugly, it's scary, and the dogs are all startled by them.